Passion

There is a trap that most people will eventually fall into. We will focus so hard on building our dreams that we miss the Big Picture, and even if we accomplish our dreams, we will feel empty inside!

The Big Picture is your real Purpose in Life. It is bigger and MORE important than your paycheck, titles, corner offices, homes, cars, retirement, reputations, and financial freedom. It is a greater concept than running a successful business or being the best manager or employee.

I LOVE ALL of these ambitions, but they are NOT our real Purpose in life […]

Some time between 9th and 10th grade, I went through a big change… and it was not a good change! I used to be a diligent student who studied and worked hard to earn good grades, but something happened to my way of thinking that changed my attitude. My mom would have told you that aliens abducted her son for almost 10 years as I lived a life of “Just Enough.”

In those three years of high school, studying was not on my agenda. In fact, I would never bring books home at all. Sometimes I wouldn’t […]

I used to dream about walking into my bosses’ office and yelling: You can take this job and shove it!

I was in the Military at the time so actually saying those things out loud to my boss would not have ended well.

“Take This Job and Shove It” is a 1977 country music song written by David Allan Coe and popularized by Johnny Paycheck. It was the number one song In the Country at the time so you can bet there were a lot of people who could relate to those words.

I bet if […]

For the first time in my life, I played the lottery. The prize was over One BILLION Dollars, and people were going crazy about the possibility to win. All the stores that sold these tickets were busy from dawn to dusk. People stood in line to spend money they really could not afford to lose and play a fantasy game in their minds about what they would do with that money.

As I was reading about the delirium the Country was in over the prize money, I could not help noticing a pattern in the Fantasy game people […]